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weikee
post Aug 29 2011, 12:07 AM

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If you plan to use 3 phase, and all new electrical outlet and minimal looping 35k to me is cheap. Does it include new earthing? TNB application for 3 Phase?

Some other cost you may want to consider

01) Copper / Stainless Steel piping (for centralized water heater).
- Think for your Bungalow may need 7 - 10k to cover upper and lower floor
02) Roof tiles also increase a lot, so need to add more buffer
03) CCTV, and Alarm wiring
04) Toilet sink/bowl... This things really very expensive


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post Aug 29 2011, 10:12 AM

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QUOTE(RS232C @ Aug 29 2011, 08:46 AM)

the cheapest quotation we received have the following item

living hall - 3 nos standard plug each + wiring for fan & lighting & aircond
room - 2 nos standard plug each + wiring for fan, lighting & aircond
library - 2 nos standard plug + wiring for lighting and aircond
dry kitchen -  5 nos standard plug + wiring for lighting
wet kitchen - 3 nos standard plug + wiring for lighting and fan
store - 1 nos standard plug + wiring for lighting
bathroom - wiring for lighting and 3x1 nos water heater plug
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This look too few for a bungalow. And how many looping are we talking? I'll suggest to have two DB box.. One for Ground, another for first floor. Depend on your room size, you may need 2 for a typical 100sqft room, to maybe 4 for larger and longer wall. How about parking porch? you need to have power socket also.

sl2007 is right, your M&E should have been finalized, looking at the architect you should be able to design number of wall socket, and estimate lighting.

For such a big house, is better to run centralized water heater.

BTW, water heater mixer is not cheap. Around 500 - 1k for a good mixer.
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post Aug 29 2011, 12:19 PM

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More is better, and make sure get 11 core armored cable up to the gate.

Also make a on/off switch inside the house so you can switch off the outdoor socket when not use. You don't want postman come in charge the phone smile.gif

And get outdoor / weather proof power socket.
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post Aug 29 2011, 01:54 PM

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If you building entire house brand new, is good to have all wires hidden in the slab. But this required proper planing early design of electrical points / outlet.


Added on August 29, 2011, 1:56 pm
QUOTE(RS232C @ Aug 29 2011, 12:55 PM)
the way you guys comment, its seems like the 60K quote by one of the contractor make sense.

base on planning, the layout wiring for hall top  use a visible PVC pipe between wiring points. but then they said the plaster ceiling should cover up the entire trunking. is it the correct way, i had an argument with my sis on this make it a must for us to have total plaster ceiling for all halls.

On the other hand, socket wiring will be run through pvc pipe conceal within walls. if we confirm with this contractor, they will lay those pvc piping before the inner layer wall stack up.
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compare apply and apple, you can compare per point / outlet. If 35k give you only 100 outlets, but 60k give you 200 outlets it workout 60k contractor is cheaper.

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post Aug 30 2011, 07:32 PM

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Water storage heating piping can be difference from solar piping, can be 70% difference.

 

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